An author posthumously thanks a fellow Canadian novelist for his inspiration, through an allegory of Theriault's imaginary world and the strange and colorful season of "Indian Summer," the season in which Theriault died. (MSE)

Eight women's periodicals published in Quebec are described and their contents, readership, and editorial policies are discussed at length. The information was derived from interviews with editors, executives, or journalists, and the grouping excludes magazines focusing on one specialized topic. (MSE)

Salient lexical, phonetic, and morphological peculiarities of the vernacular French of Quebec are examined and explained, and similarities to European popular French are discussed, both as a guide to texts written in the vernacular and to place this variety in its sociolinguistic context. (Author/MSE)

During the first half of the twentieth century in British Columbia, French language was considered a school subject to be taught as any other using formal classical approaches. Generally, no specific provincial or local policies existed to guide how French was taught and learned. By 1981, however, British Columbia had developed explicit language…